Tales of the Dervishes

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Idries ShahPaperback, 250 pages9781784790752 Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or fol klore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe them. The material in Tales of the Dervishes is the result of a thousand years of development, during which Dervish masters used these and other teaching stories to instruct their disciples. Show more